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January 12th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
A third round was reportedly scheduled in Beijing before the announcement of
Kim’s death put the process on hold.
The spokesman’s statement suggested that a deal was still on the cards if the
US raised the amount of food it is willing to offer.
“We will watch if the US truly wants to build confidence,” it said.
Washington says any decision to offer humanitarian food aid would not be
linked to other issues, but the spokesman accused the United States of
politicising the issue.
Robert King, US special envoy for North Korean human rights, met senior North
Korean foreign ministry official Ri Gun in Beijing on December 15-16 to
discuss a possible resumption of US food aid.
South
Korean media reports at the time said the North had agreed to
suspend its uranium programme while the US would provide up to 240,000
tonnes of food.
The United States pledged 500,000 tonnes of rice in 2008. Shipments stopped
the following year amid questions over transparency of the distribution, and
Pyongyang told the Americans to leave.
The North’s spokesman said on Wednesday the US had failed to provide 330,000
tonnes of the amount promised three years ago.
In recent talks it “has drastically changed the amount and items of
provision contrary to the originally promised food aid”, the spokesman
said, adding this raised doubts about Washington’s willingness to build
confidence.
The US is offering high-energy biscuits and similar nutritional supplements in
its latest package, rather than rice which could be diverted to the military
or the elite.
UN agencies who visited in February 2011 said six million North Koreans – a
quarter of the population – need urgent aid in a nation where hundreds of
thousands died in a famine in the 1990s.
On Wednesday the United States said it plans to host high-level talks this
month with Japan and South Korea on regional issues, including the situation
in North Korea following Kim Jong-Il’s death.
US State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said that Kurt Campbell, the
assistant secretary of state for East Asia and Pacific Affairs, would host
the talks with his Japanese and South Korean counterparts.
But Ms Nuland said she could not yet announce a date.
The three will “talk about all the regional issues, but included very
much within that our approach to the DPRK,” or North Korea, she said.
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